When I saw her at the beach of the Caspian Sea I knew what I was experiencing was love. My relationship with the world shifted in ways that I’m still trying to understand. For me, that meant a melancholic connection that deepened between my consciousness and the environment, and a profound desire to visualize what I was feeling. Through this visual story, I ask: How do two distinct perspectives merge, and what new world would come of that? There is a unique dialectic between eyes and the sea, between the skin and the weather, and between mankind and their environment. My journey from the inner world to the outer world was an existential understanding; an understanding that we cannot know ourselves without first knowing our environment. In a sense, it is these outer shapes that transform our inner existence. The Environment of Love is an under developing personal project that I began in 2011 at the beach. In recent decades, due to climate change and irresponsible attitude toward Iran’s environment, my country is facing increasingly frequent droughts and changing weather patterns. Even northern Iran, which has the highest rainfall in Iran, could not survive this neglect. The wetlands and lakes of this region, where I first fell in love, are drying up, improper construction is damming riverbeds, agricultural lands are becoming barren, and the fishing due to their declining population in the Iranian side can no longer sustain a population dependent on it. For the past decade I have self-funded this personal project through my work as a taxi driver in my city Tabriz, returning to northern Iran few times to understand how this landscape and it’s people that I feel so personally connected to, are being transformed. This project is a conversation between myself and my environment that asks: Can love save us and the world we share?